TURN the GUNS AROUND Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and Revolutions

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TURN the GUNS AROUND
Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and Revolutions

$19.95 New York: World View Forum 2017
324 pages. 29 photos, 4 maps.

Draftees and enlistees — eighteen-year-olds from the South Bronx, factory workers from Buffalo, miners’ sons from Kentucky, unemployed youth from Watts — hate the military and the Vietnam War. They throw a wrench into the Pentagon’s war machine, becoming leaders of the anti-war movement and organizing a union in the con-script military to battle war, racism and their officers.
In three other wars — the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 that sparked the Paris Commune; World War I, which sowed revolutions in Germany and Russia; African liberation wars of the 1960s that incited a captains’ revolt in Portugal — ordinary soldiers turn their guns around to make revolution.

Weaving together letters from servicemen and servicewomen, inter-views with GI war resisters and first-hand narratives, memoir and historical research, author John Catalinotto — as participant and historian — highlights the relation between rank-and-file soldier resistance and the struggle for state power.

From the first napalm bomb dropped, Catalinotto hated the U.S. war against Vietnam. By 1967 he was organizing rank-and-file servicemen to resist the war. For the last 50 years he pondered that experience and its lessons for humanity. Now he wants to share this history with all who want to fight injustice.

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⇒PVT LARRY HOLMES
If schools in the United States really wanted to impart historical truth, Catalinotto’s Turn The Guns Around would be required reading. He tells the true story of this epoch. Few participants know more about the massive GI rebellion against the Vietnam War, the anti-war veterans’ movement or the history of soldier revolts from the Paris Commune to the Portuguese coup.
GI resister and organizer for the American Serviceman’s Union 1972-74

⇒PVT TERRY KLUG
Turn The Guns Around really brings it all back: the struggle, the solidarity, the cruelty of the stockade Brass. I’m extremely proud to have played a small role during that period. I regret nothing.’
U.S. Army, September 1966 to September 1970, with 20 months in the Fort Dix Stockade and Leavenworth Prison

⇒SP4 RICHARD WHEATON
‘Every once in a while a book comes along that lifts us high by reminding us that people struggling together can accomplish momentous things. I consider myself fortunate to have been part of the GI anti-war movement, and a founding member of the ASU; we are all fortunate to have this book.’
U.S. Army, Sept. 7, 1965 to Sept. 6, 1968

⇒ SARA FLOUNDERS
‘The radical shift in consciousness fifty years ago within the U.S. military has invaluable lessons as a new period of resistance unfolds. In Turn the Guns Around, rank-and-file GIs, who suddenly emerged as leaders of a movement, describe their determination to risk all, refuse orders and sabotage the military machine. By rooting them in past resistance, this “How to” manual arms the people’s movements of today to combat new wars.’
Co-Director of International Action Center, Author of War Without Victory

⇒SP4 GREG LAXER
‘Catalinotto’s book digs up historical precedents for troop revolts contributing to the ending of imperialist wars. That was certainly our aim through the actions of the American Serviceman’s Union. The best people I met in the army were my fellow stockade inmates!’
U.S. Army, prisoner of conscience, Forts Devins, Dix and Riley, 1968-70

⇒FRED GOLDSTEIN
‘In the present period of reaction it is difficult to imagine the undoing of the powerful capitalist state. Catalinotto reaches back in history to vividly demonstrate how social and economic crises can and will lead to the disintegration of the capitalist military. He shows that the forces of social revolution lie embedded in the very structure of imperialism and it’s insatiable drive for conquest.’
Author of Low-Wage Capitalism and Capitalism At A Dead End

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